Sermon Notes : Pastor Steven Furtick – Rescue Your Testimony

Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Rescue Your Testimony. This message was from Elevation Church on September 8, 2024.

You can watch Rescue Your Testimony here on YouTube.

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Please keep in mind that these are only my notes I took while Pastor was speaking, not my own thoughts.

Be sure to leave me a comment with your favorite takeaway. Mine is when he said you can think more than one thing at a time, but you can’t speak more than one thing at a time. 🤯

Sermon Notes : Rescue Your Testimony

• Romans 5:1-9
• Joshua 4:9
• Alt title : The Proof is in the Puddles
• What we want to experience is on the other side of something that we don’t want to do.
• If you don’t have a hope man you’ll never leave the house.
• How do you handle things that you didn’t plan to happen?
• Boasting in the hope is very different than boasting in the reality.
• Anticipation
• The hope of the glory of God.
• The devil is attacking the about to anticipate what God might do when he comes to you with worry. Which inhibits your ability to worship.
• They both attach to something you can’t see.
• Worry gives more attention to the problem.
• We learn to manage our level of disappointment by bringing down our level of expectation.
• Not all processing is productive.
• You end up with a godless thought because you started with a godless process.
• You can think more than one thing at a time but you can’t speak more than one thing at a time.
• It’s time to speak.
• I have a hope that God will be with me as I go.
• Do you process with God what you’re going through?
• My peace with God is not in the absence of the problem/anxiety/shaking hands/enemies who don’t like me.
• It comes from somebody who won a game I didn’t even play in.
• God has to heal your hope.
• Change what you boasted is the first step. 
• Going from we’re going through something to we’re getting something from.
• We tell stories like we’re still in them when we’ve already been brought through it.
• Unreleased bitterness.
• If it hasn’t hurt you like that you wouldn’t be here today.
• Yeah it hurt but God healed me from it.
• Have been is past tense. That’s behind me.
• Justification
• We go back in our past, but not far enough because before we called on Jesus, he died for us.
• But God.
• I was, but God.
• Access suggests that something can be there, and you have it but you can’t get to it be wise of what’s blocking you.
• The more you understand the access the more peace you have.
• We need more awareness. Hopeothetical.
• We need more character.
• In order to get through the hope, you have to get through the hell.
• The character God is producing is the type of character where you go through something and get something.
• Proven worth.
• The pain produced the worth of you faith.
• What good is a hope that can’t be disappointed?
• You have stopped talking about what God is going to do.
• He wants to rescue your testimony.
• Pain proves the character.
• Proof starts with suffering, which leads to the hope.
• At the lowest moments God is doing the most.
• Sometimes suffering is the starting place for something amazing.
• The proof is in the puddle of tears that we cried when we suffered, but then we got up and kept doing so now we have a testimony.
• Stop talking about all it cost you and start talking about how God has called you.
• Demonstration
• The proof of hope is not that you don’t suffer, or go through.
• While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• You are transitioning out of this.
• Commemorate every crossing over in your life. Celebrate them.
• Joshua 4:5-9
• You gotta get something outta everything you go through.
• God does miracles, and I have a testimony.
• My faith is not in a how, it’s in a Who.
• I was, but God.
• The only time they can see the stones is if the tide is low.
• God dries up Jordan rivers. You’ve got some stones at the bottom of what you’ve been going through.
• It’s not a testimony until it’s been tested.
• You can see where you stood where you thought you would die.
• Something’s you don’t see unless it’s a dry season.
• Don’t be so freaked out with the hypothetical situations of what will dry up. The stones will still be there.
• God is deeply committed to you.
• Even if it does, you’ll be alright.
• I have therefore I hope.

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